Upcoming Online Events
Saturday, May 15th, 9:00am - 12pm
Learning the Language of Loss
Learning the Language of Loss
You are warmly invited to join us for a 3-hour online workshop that is a collaborative offering between Sarah Peterson, from Clear Mourning and Elizabeth Johnson from The Peaceful Presence Project.
The focus of this offering will be multifold: an exploration of how we can show up differently in the face of grief; why avoidance around difficult conversations and interactions blocks opportunities for growth, resiliency and wonder.
Participants will be offered tangible tools and language for bridging the painful disconnect that oftentimes accompanies all forms of loss and death.
Whether you attend this event or not, we invite you to read "Ahead of All Parting", a short article by Elizabeth Johnson that was just recently published.
This course is approved by the Oregon Chapter NASW for 1.5 CEU.
Information about applying for the CEU credit will be given during the Saturday morning event.
About the Presenters:
Sarah Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker with years of experience at the beside of hospice patients. Having completed her studies at The Sacred Art of Living, Center for Spiritual Living, she has a paradigm for being with suffering. After the tragic death of her daughter, Sarah founded Clear Mourning and is the Executive Director of this non-profit. Clear Mourning’s mission is to shift the culture of grief through innovation, support and awareness. Her private therapy practice in Bend, OR, focuses on those in grief and major life transition.
Elizabeth Johnson, an end of life doula and graduate of the Anamcara Project, is the Executive Director of The Peaceful Presence Project, an organization committed to the cultivation of death and grief literate communities. Her personal and profound confrontation with loss opened a genuine curiosity around the power of death and sorrow in our individual lives. Elizabeth has more than a decade of facilitation experience, leading dozens of groups and individuals into the challenging and revelatory territories of self-exploration and truth seeking. She is also one of the contributors to "Endnotes", see below for more information.
Date and Time: Saturday, May 15th, from 9:00am - 12pm
Fee: $30.00; Partial or full scholarships available upon requests.
Mail checks made out to "Stillpoint"
To: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "May event" to the "Add a note".
Registration required in order to receive the zoom link.
"endnotes" is an evidence-based, holistic end of life planning workbook.
It is available through Peaceful Presence website.
For more information about this workbook, click here.
Saturday, June 19th
Outdoor event at Stillpoint
9am - 12pm
Let the Land Call to You:
an exploration of healing through connection with land
Let the land call to you:
an exploration of healing through connection with land
This solstice gathering on Juneteenth, the national celebration of the end of slavery, is an opportunity to recognize the dance between liberation and the pain of our individual and collective histories that still lives in our bodies.
During our time together we will explore what happens when we allow our struggles to meet the embrace of the earth. We will work with the elements of creation for healing by honoring and connecting to the land and nature as our guide to wholeness.
This special event is an invitation to remember the struggles of our lives, our ancestors, and others in our country’s past and present. From this place of remembering, we then to come to the deep well of the earth to drink and renew ourselves so we can meet what is needed and hear what we are called to do by the great mother.
This event will be taking place outdoors at Stillpoint. We will be abiding by the WA state COVID guidelines for outdoor gatherings in June.
Facilitator:
Summer Starr is devoted to relationship with the land. As a healer, dancer, poet and mystic, she finds the wisdom of creation a wellspring for the human heart and enjoys encouraging others in developing this connection. She is one of the contributors to the recently released book, "Whiteness Is Not an Ancestor, Essay on Life and Lineage by White Women", edited by Lisa Iversen.
Date and Time: Saturday, June 19th, 9am - 12pm
Place: Stillpoint, 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham
Fee: $30.00, partial or full scholarships available upon request.
If paying by check, please make it out to "Stillpoint"
You can pay on the day or mail payment to: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "June event" to the "Add a note".
